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Just in time for the Passover and Easter, The Bible miniseries 2013 has begun on The History Channel. The 5-part, 10-hour series will cover both the Old and New Testaments. Produced by the husband and wife team of Mark Burnett and Roma Downey, the series began last night taking us from Noah telling the story of Adam and Eve while adrift in his Ark, through Abraham founding the nation of Israel, to Moses leading his people across the Red Sea out of Egypt and receiving the Ten Commandments. Filmed in Morocco, the $22 million-dollar presentation features an international cast with the Portuguese actor Diogo Morgado playing the role of Jesus Christ. For Burnett and Downey, who plays Jesus′ mother, Mary, in the series, The Bible is an important project for them as they are both Christians and are seeking to reverse a trend of biblical ignorance among younger Americans. Will they succeed in turning the tide of secular humanism?

The Bible miniseries on The History Channel proposes to reintroduce many of the basic stories to a secular audience. Image Credit: The History Channel.

Both Burnett and Downey believe that American society has suffered culturally as the Holy Bible is not taught in our public school system. That even from a simple literary point of view, many of the individual stories have value beyond the purely spiritual. The lessons learned from the Bible are useful of our understanding of how we came to be as a people. That the Bible has had a major influence on human history, including our art and culture in general.

But, thanks to court decisions, public schools in America no longer teach the works from the Bible. The young adults of Generation X and the new ′Millennials′ are quite ignorant of many Bible stories and characters. Likewise, they are also ignorant of the moral lessons and values which stem from these stories. The Bible, just as with many other classic works such as Aesop′s Fables, are timeless tales of right and wrong, of good and evil. With whole generations of young people missing these valuable lessons from not being taught in all schools, we can easily understand why our society is so ripe with corruption and violence.

Hopefully, The Bible miniseries 2013 on The History Channel will help renew interest in such lessons. That is one of the hopes by producers Mark Burnett and his wife, Roma Downey. The 5-part, 10-hour series has the look of a big-budget production, with terrific special effects in segments like Noah and The Flood, Moses crossing the Red Sea and later his receiving the Ten Commandments. New episodes will air each Sunday evening with special presentations on Easter weekend as Diogo Morgado portrays Jesus Christ. This is television the whole family can enjoy!

Almost as good as the one about the giant mass of really super duper dense dark matter that inexplicably showed up one day, and then suddenly exploded for no reason, the force of which catapulted gabillions of tons of matter curiously shaped like beach balls over gatrillions of light years, occupying space which suddenly came to exist where there was no space before, and on which people started walking around and having babies thanks to the missing link.

I thought that was the one about the janitors, the teachers, the air traffic controllers,the firemen, the TSA, EMTs, ambulance drivers, cops all being furloughed… and all the criminals being set loose ?

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Andy Z Says:
March 5th, 2013 at 7:59 am

LOL, Micky!

I think that those are known as ‘The Biggest Lies Ever Told’ by Barack Hussein Obama. Except maybe how he was born in Hawaii.

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c l gregory Says:
March 11th, 2013 at 12:04 am

some of the commetns on this website are just stupid comapring the stories in the bible to aesops fable is a direct slap to all christians.

Hey Greg, the books werent being compared.
The point was that no one reads books that teach right from wrong anymore.
You sound like Margaret White “Blasphemer” !

I watched it.
Well done in terms of production and core message but the individual episodes were pretty condensed and void of little details that could of given the stories more depth.

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buzzbee Says:
March 11th, 2013 at 10:56 am

I still say I am now going to demand that they teach geometry and calculus in Sunday School.

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Andy Z Says:
March 12th, 2013 at 7:10 am

Buzz,

Did you see last week that 80% of NYC high school graduates applying for admission to college are illiterate? Let us hope that Sunday schools inspire students to read, or they won’t be much good at geometry and calculus either.

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buzzbee Says:
March 12th, 2013 at 9:35 am

They were not illiterate, they were deemed to need remedial classes.

It was for people going to community colleges only (not traditional four-year universities); one of those places that proved to be too difficult for such luminaries as Rush Limbaugh, who flunked out of “junior” college in his first semester.

Many of the “remedial” classes were for math, not reading.

Additionally, a large number of people enrolling in those schools had graduated from “regular” school many years ago, thus the need for a remedial or refresher course (if you went to high school 12 years ago and decide to go back to school, algebra may prove difficult).

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flyingmonkey Says:
March 12th, 2013 at 9:51 am

“Many of the “remedial” classes were for math, not reading.”

Yet the story was about 80% of New York H.S. Grads being unable to READ at grade level.

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Patrick McCain Says:
March 12th, 2013 at 10:51 am

My guess is that 98% of those illiterate students in New York are future Democrats. There was something to be said for literacy tests for voting.

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flyingmonkey Says:
March 12th, 2013 at 11:16 am

“…one of those places that proved to be too difficult for such luminaries as Rush Limbaugh, who flunked out of “junior” college in his first semester.”

Only a liberal could believe he’s scoring a point when disparaging the intelligence of someone worth a half billion dollars.

In order to receive my early admissions to the U of H I had to pass my GED and some aptitude tests first.
At 16, with only 2 months of public high under my belt I passed all the tests whithin the GED in one day with flying colors.
Am I a genius or is the curriculum set up for idiots ?
I’m certainly no genius.

That was 39 years ago and our high school grads are dumber now than ever.